Hubert Murray

John Hubert Plunkett Murray (29 December 1861-27 February 1940) was the Australian colonial administrator of Papua New Guinea from 1908 to 1940, succeeding Francis Rickman Barton and preceding Hubert Leonard Murray.

Biography
John Hubert Plunkett Murray was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 29 December 1861, and he graduated from Oxford and was called to the bar in 1886. A Crown prosecutor in Sydney from 1896, he became chief judicial officer of New Guinea. As administrator he brought most of Papua New Guinea under Australian control. He was particularly notable, however, for his relatively liberal and enlightened treatment of the native population, who he argued would accept Australian rule only if they received just treatment. He died in Samarai in 1940 while still in office.